Re: Rules on incoming email

2010-09-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jos Chrispijn put forth on 9/19/2010 11:11 AM: > I have this email client that takes care of distrubition of email to > different mail folders. > As I now started to read my email with a mobile phone, there is a load > of messages that aren't sorted, as my 'home client' hasn't taken care of > that

Maximum Concurrent Connections

2010-09-20 Thread Avinash Pawar // Viva
Hi, I want to know how we can increase the maximum number of concurrent connections. So please tell me at what extent I can increase value and where it is stored? -- Incase of any further queries, Please feel free to mail me or contact me on the numbers provided below. Thanks & Regards, Avinas

Re: Maximum Concurrent Connections

2010-09-20 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Avinash Pawar // Viva : Hi, I want to know how we can increase the maximum number of concurrent connections. So please tell me at what extent I can increase value and where it is stored? Have a look for "default_process_limit" (http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#default_proce

SPF Softfail question

2010-09-20 Thread Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL
Hi All, Not really Postfix related, but maybe you can share your thoughts... Received a mail today from a user that sent a e-mail which immediately bounced.. The bounce message said: host bla.bla.bla[xxx.xxx.xxx] said: 550-SPF check SOFT fail. Your are not allowed to send mail from 550 ou

Re: SPF Softfail question

2010-09-20 Thread Simon Waters
On Monday 20 September 2010 14:18:16 Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL wrote: > > Not really Postfix related, but maybe you can share your thoughts... Definitely not Postfix related. > As far as I understand from the whole SPF perspective, shouldn't a Soft > Fail be a 4** error and re-try, So

Re: SPF Softfail question

2010-09-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/20/2010 09:29 AM, Simon Waters wrote: > On Monday 20 September 2010 14:18:16 Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL wrote: >> >> Not really Postfix related, but maybe you can share your thoughts... > > Definitely not Postfix related. > >> As far as I understand from the whole SPF perspective, s

Re: Rules on incoming email

2010-09-20 Thread Jorge Armando Medina
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 18:11 +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > >> I have this email client that takes care of distrubition of email to >> different mail folders. >> As I now started to read my email with a mobile phone, there is a load >> of messages that aren't sorted,

Re: conditional "recipient address verification" - how to do?

2010-09-20 Thread Eugene V. Boontseff
On 19.09.2010 02:30, pf at alt-ctrl-del.org wrote: But here is what I do: transport_maps = destination_for_each_domain relay_recipient_maps = list_of_valid_recipients lots_of_tests, reject_unauth_destination, reject_unlisted_recipient, lots_of_other_tests, reject_unverified_recipient, permit

Re: Rules on incoming email

2010-09-20 Thread Jos Chrispijn
On 20-9-2010 9:11, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I was in a similar situation not long ago using TBird rules to do my message sorting into IMAP folders. When accessing my mail vi my Roundcube webmail server nothing was sorted. I grew tired of this. I was already using Dovecot for my IMAP server, so I con

Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Yang Zhang
Can postfix be configured to guarantee durable email receipt? E.g., can it be sure to fsync the mbox/Maildir file and/or directory before it acknowledges successful receipt of an email? -- Yang Zhang http://yz.mit.edu/

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Wietse Venema
Yang Zhang: > Can postfix be configured to guarantee durable email receipt? This is required by internet mail RFC and therefore not configurable. Wietse > E.g., can it be sure to fsync the mbox/Maildir file and/or directory > before it acknowledges successful receipt of an email?

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 09/20/2010 08:37 PM, Yang Zhang wrote: Can postfix be configured to guarantee durable email receipt? E.g., can it be sure to fsync the mbox/Maildir file and/or directory No, but it does guarantee durability from the receiving SMTP session to the delivering process. This CAN be deliver

Re: Forwarding emails, quick question

2010-09-20 Thread Brian Pribis
Ok, let me do this another way, since I'm clearly not understanding how this is suppose to work. I read: http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_REWRITING_README.html#virtual Am I understanding this correctly? If I put addr...@virtual_domain m...@gmail.com Shouldn't it simply forward email from the fir

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Yang Zhang
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > On 09/20/2010 08:37 PM, Yang Zhang wrote: >> >> Can postfix be configured to guarantee durable email receipt? >> >> E.g., can it be sure to fsync the mbox/Maildir file and/or directory >> > > No, but it does guarantee durability from the re

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Yang Zhang
Can you pinpoint the exact RFC & section you're referring to? Thanks. On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Yang Zhang: >> Can postfix be configured to guarantee durable email receipt? > > This is required by internet mail RFC and therefore not configurable. > >        Wietse >

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Wietse Venema
Yang Zhang: > Just to be clear, if I have this Maildir in my mailbox postmap: > > j...@mydomain.com joe/ > > and most other settings are the Ubuntu 10.04 postfix defaults, then > postfix will have done an fsync by the time the "250 OK: queued as > 12345" comes back, such that if I then immediat

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Wietse Venema
Yang Zhang: > Can you pinpoint the exact RFC & section you're referring to? Thanks. I will give you as home work to study the following documents: RFC 821 RFC 2821 RFC 5321 These have lots of other good stuff about Internet mail. Wietse > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Wietse Venema

Please Help Me Secure My Mail Server

2010-09-20 Thread bper
Hello, I have set up a postfix-dovecot server with smtp-auth using sasl by following this link: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/postfix.html It seems to be working OK. The only thing is that when I view my logs, I see a lot of 'relaying denied', 'noqueue reject', 'too many errors aft

Re: Please Help Me Secure My Mail Server

2010-09-20 Thread Matt Hayes
On 9/20/2010 4:29 PM, bper wrote: > > Hello, > > I have set up a postfix-dovecot server with smtp-auth using sasl by > following this link: > https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/postfix.html > > It seems to be working OK. The only thing is that when I view my logs, I see > a lot of 'rela

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Yang Zhang
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Yang Zhang: >> Can you pinpoint the exact RFC & section you're referring to? Thanks. > > I will give you as home work to study the following documents: > > RFC 821 > RFC 2821 > RFC 5321 > > These have lots of other good stuff about Internet

Re: Please Help Me Secure My Mail Server

2010-09-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
bper put forth on 9/20/2010 3:29 PM: > > Hello, > > I have set up a postfix-dovecot server with smtp-auth using sasl by > following this link: > https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/postfix.html > > It seems to be working OK. The only thing is that when I view my logs, I see > a lot of 'r

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Yang Zhang
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Yang Zhang: >> Just to be clear, if I have this Maildir in my mailbox postmap: >> >>   j...@mydomain.com joe/ >> >> and most other settings are the Ubuntu 10.04 postfix defaults, then >> postfix will have done an fsync by the time the "250 O

Re: Please Help Me Secure My Mail Server

2010-09-20 Thread Noel Jones
On 9/20/2010 3:29 PM, bper wrote: Hello, I have set up a postfix-dovecot server with smtp-auth using sasl by following this link: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/postfix.html It seems to be working OK. The only thing is that when I view my logs, I see a lot of 'relaying denied', 'n

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Yang Zhang : > > No. Postfix replies "250 OK: queued as 12345" when the message is QUEUED. > > Doesn't this contradict your original reply that durability is > guaranteed? If there's no fsync, then the message may not have been > persisted to non-volatile storage, and will be lost. After the m

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Yang Zhang put forth on 9/20/2010 3:46 PM: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: >> Yang Zhang: >>> Can you pinpoint the exact RFC & section you're referring to? Thanks. >> >> I will give you as home work to study the following documents: >> >> RFC 821 >> RFC 2821 >> RFC 5321 >>

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Wietse Venema
Ralf Hildebrandt: > * Yang Zhang : > > > > No. Postfix replies "250 OK: queued as 12345" when the message is QUEUED. > > > > Doesn't this contradict your original reply that durability is > > guaranteed? If there's no fsync, then the message may not have been > > persisted to non-volatile storage

transport_maps and round robin dns

2010-09-20 Thread Curtis
In the case where transport_maps is used to designate the next hop destination of a message like this: customer.domain smtp:[mail.customer.domain] ...and the customer uses round robin dns for mail.customer.domain so that it points to multiple IPs like this: mail.customer.domain. 900 IN A

Re: transport_maps and round robin dns

2010-09-20 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 09/21/2010 12:07 AM, Curtis wrote: In the case where transport_maps is used to designate the next hop destination of a message like this: customer.domain smtp:[mail.customer.domain] ...and the customer uses round robin dns for mail.customer.domain so that it points to multiple IPs like thi

Re: transport_maps and round robin dns

2010-09-20 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:10:49AM +0200, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > On 09/21/2010 12:07 AM, Curtis wrote: >> In the case where transport_maps is used to designate the next hop >> destination of a message like this: >> >> customer.domain smtp:[mail.customer.domain] >> >> ...and the customer uses rou

Re: transport_maps and round robin dns

2010-09-20 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 09/21/2010 12:52 AM, Victor Duchovni wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:10:49AM +0200, Jeroen Geilman wrote: On 09/21/2010 12:07 AM, Curtis wrote: In the case where transport_maps is used to designate the next hop destination of a message like this: customer.domain smtp:[mail.cust

Re: transport_maps and round robin dns

2010-09-20 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:56:14AM +0200, Jeroen Geilman wrote: >> Yes, when traffic to the destination is light (message deliveries >> are spaced multiple seconds or more apart) or is very heavy (message >> deliveries are many in each interval equal to the delivery of a single >> message). When t

Re: transport_maps and round robin dns

2010-09-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Victor Duchovni put forth on 9/20/2010 6:01 PM: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:56:14AM +0200, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > >>> Yes, when traffic to the destination is light (message deliveries >>> are spaced multiple seconds or more apart) or is very heavy (message >>> deliveries are many in each interva

Re: transport_maps and round robin dns

2010-09-20 Thread Curtis
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > On 09/21/2010 12:07 AM, Curtis wrote: > >> In the case where transport_maps is used to designate the next hop >> destination of a message like this: >> >> customer.domain smtp:[mail.customer.domain] >> >> ...and the customer uses round robi

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread mouss
Le 20/09/2010 22:46, Yang Zhang a écrit : On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: Yang Zhang: Can you pinpoint the exact RFC& section you're referring to? Thanks. I will give you as home work to study the following documents: RFC 821 RFC 2821 RFC 5321 These have lots of oth

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread mouss
Le 20/09/2010 21:15, Yang Zhang a écrit : On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: On 09/20/2010 08:37 PM, Yang Zhang wrote: Can postfix be configured to guarantee durable email receipt? E.g., can it be sure to fsync the mbox/Maildir file and/or directory No, but it does gua

Re: Forwarding emails, quick question

2010-09-20 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:15:37PM -0400, Brian Pribis wrote: > If I put > > addr...@virtual_domain m...@gmail.com > > Shouldn't it simply forward email from the first address to my gmail account? Yes. > What happens is the mail does go to gmail but if I hit "reply" it > tries to mail ba

Re: Please Help Me Secure My Mail Server

2010-09-20 Thread fakessh
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:56:35 -0500, Noel Jones wrote: > On 9/20/2010 3:29 PM, bper wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have set up a postfix-dovecot server with smtp-auth using sasl by >> following this link: >> https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/postfix.html >> >> It seems to be working OK. The

Re: Virtual users pop3d suggestions

2010-09-20 Thread Nick Edwards
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: > On 9/10/2010 00:32, Nick Edwards wrote: > > Good day all, > > I apologize in advance if the moderators consider this slightly OT. > > > > We have many users moved to a MySQL database, planned for moving away > > from Cyrus on Sunday Oct 3, w